• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.179-187
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• 2009

Web2.0은 정치, 경제, 사회 등의 다양한 분야에서 큰 영향을 주었는데 교육 분야에서도 활발한 응용을 볼 수 있었다. Web2.0을 교육적으로 활용할 수 있는 다양한 사이트 중 Wikipedia는 Web2.0의 집단지성을 대표하는 것으로 유명하다. Wikipedia는 오픈소스백과사전으로서 누구나 편집이 가능하고 배타적인 저작권을 가지고 있지 않기 때문에 사용에 제약을 받지 않는다. 현재 267개의 언어로 서비스되고 있으며, 모든 언어를 합하면 1000만여 항목이 넘으며, 앞으로의 발전이 기대되는 온라인 사전이다. Wikipedia는 정보 검색, 정보생성, 위키문법이용 편집, 토론 등의 기본 기능과 사용자문서 관리, 문서역사, 바벨, 위키미디어 프로젝트 등의 응용 기능이 있으며, 집단지성과 즉시성, 발전가능성, 개방성, 대용량성 등의 교육적 장점을 갖고 있으나, 현재 한국 교육 현장에서는 활발히 이용되고 있지 않은 것이 현실이다. 이에 Wikipedia를 초등학교 교육 현장에 적용하는 다음의 6가지 활동을 제안한다. 첫째, 정보검색, 둘째 정보편집, 셋째 정보생성, 넷째 정보토론, 다섯째 학습 결과물의 정리, 여섯째 프로젝트 학습의 활동들을 적용할 수 있다. 브리태니커사전과 비교할 정도로 정확하다는 긍정적인 시각과 누구나 편집을 할 수 있기 때문에 문서훼손이 생겨 부정확하다는 부정적인 시각이 있다. 또한 한국 Wikipedia가 타국의 Wikipedia에 비해 부진한 이유를 찾는 논의에는 여러 해석이 있다. 이러한 논의에도 불구하고 Wikipedia에는 무궁한 발전 가능성이 있기 때문에 교육에 활용할 만한 가치가 있다고 판단된다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1-19
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• 2017

Wikipedia is one of the world's most visited sites for content collaboration. Its success is due to thousands of volunteers' motivation and commitment to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. In this paper, we use the Cox regression model to assess the effect of self-loop editing on the promotion of Wikipedia featured articles. We collected 2978 Wikipedia featured article editing history from start of Wikipedia until 2011. We use self-loops as a proxy measure for Wikipedia editors' commitment, and find that self-loop editing has a positive effect on the promotion of featured articles. We further distinguish the self-loop into a short-term self-loop and a long-term self-loop. We find that long-term self-loop editing is more helpful than short-term self-loop editing. This research has been conducted with both theoretical and practical application methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.401-411
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• 2008

Folksonomy, which is created through the collaborative tagging from many users, is one of the driving factors of Web 2.0. Tags are said to be the web metadata describing a web document. If we are able to find the semantic subsumption relationships between tags created through the collaborative tagging, it can help users understand the metadata more intuitively. In this paper, targeting del.icio.us tag data, we propose a method named FolksoViz for deriving subsumption relationships between tags by using Wikipedia texts. For this purpose, we propose a statistical model for deriving subsumption relationships based on the frequency of each tag on the Wikipedia texts, and TSD(Tag Sense Disambiguation) method for mapping each tag to a corresponding Wikipedia text. The derived subsumption pairs are visualized effectively on the screen. The experiment shows that our proposed algorithm managed to find the correct subsumption pairs with high accuracy.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.137-148
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• 2014

Named entity classification of Wikipedia articles is a fundamental research area that can be used to automatically build large-scale corpora of named entity recognition or to support other entity processing, such as entity linking, as auxiliary tasks. This paper describes a method of classifying named entities in Chinese Wikipedia with fine-grained types. We considered multi-faceted information in Chinese Wikipedia to construct four feature sets, designed different feature selection methods for each feature, and fused different features with a vector space using different strategies. Experimental results show that the explored feature sets and their combination can effectively improve the performance of named entity classification.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.15-39
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• 2011

A deeper understanding of how organizations behave as social complex adaptive systems is needed. In this paper we demonstrate how the Leadership Invigorating Flows of Energies model can help with this understanding. The model highlights the role of emergent leadership as a force encouraging the creation, diffusion, and utilization of knowledge through self-organizing mechanisms. We illustrate our approach by examining Wikipedia and show how it can be described as a social CAS. Our analysis of Wikipedia describes how emerging intrapreneurship behaviors result in dynamic flows of knowledge and self-organizing feedback mechanisms across the organization. We provide implications for organization studies and present evidence to support claims made by advocates of complexity theory. We conclude by proposing that Wikipedia can be seen as a new form of organization, and finish with a brief note highlighting a possible way forward.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1121-1125
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• 2010

This paper proposes a Wikipedia-based feedback method for in-depth blog distillation whose goal is to find blogs that represent in-depth thoughts or analysis on a given query. The proposed method uses Wikipedia articles which are relevant to the query. TREC Blogs08 collection which is a large-scale blog corpus and English Wikipedia dump were used for experiments, The proposed method significantly increased the retrieval performance including MAP over the conventional post based feedback method.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.49-61
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• 2017

Wikipedia infoboxes have emerged as an important structured information source on the web. To compose infobox for an article, considerable amount of manual effort is required from an author. Due to this manual involvement, infobox suffers from inconsistency, data heterogeneity, incompleteness, schema drift etc. Prior works attempted to solve those problems by generating infobox automatically based on the corresponding article text. However, there are many articles in Wikipedia that do not have enough text content to generate infobox. In this paper, we present an automated approach to generate infobox for movie domain of Wikipedia by extracting information from several sources of the web instead of relying on article text only. The proposed methodology has been developed using semantic relations of article content and available semi-structured information of the web. It processes the article text through some classification processes to identify the template from the large pool of template list. Finally, it extracts the information for the corresponding template attributes from web and thus generates infobox. Through a comprehensive experimental evaluation the proposed scheme was demonstrated as an effective and efficient approach to generate Wikipedia infobox.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.28-38
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• 2018

Wikipedia is composed of millions of articles, each of which explains a particular entity with various languages in the real world. Since the articles are contributed and edited by a large population of diverse experts with no specific authority, Wikipedia can be seen as a naturally occurring body of human knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically identify key entities and relations in Wikipedia articles, which can be used for automatic ontology construction. Compared to previous approaches to entity and relation extraction and/or identification from text, our goal is to capture naturally occurring entities and relations from Wikipedia while minimizing artificiality often introduced at the stages of constructing training and testing data. The titles of the articles and anchored phrases in their text are regarded as entities, and their types are automatically classified with minimal training. We attempt to automatically detect and identify possible relations among the entities based on clustering without training data, as opposed to the relation extraction approach that focuses on improvement of accuracy in selecting one of the several target relations for a given pair of entities. While the relation extraction approach with supervised learning requires a significant amount of annotation efforts for a predefined set of relations, our approach attempts to discover relations as they occur naturally. Unlike other unsupervised relation identification work where evaluation of automatically identified relations is done with the correct relations determined a priori by human judges, we attempted to evaluate appropriateness of the naturally occurring clusters of relations involving person-artifact and person-organization entities and their relation names.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.247-264
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• 2013

Wikipedia represents a revolutionary experiment in the sense that it allows anonymous Internet users to contribute, change, and edit Encyclopedia contents used by tens of millions of people. While a very popular information source on the Internet, because of its questionable information credibility and accuracy, citing Wikipedia articles is being regarded as a risky behavior for scholars. The present study identified 282 scholarly articles from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science citation database that cite Wikipedia at least once. Out of the millions of articles indexed in Web of Science, the proportion of articles citing Wikipedia is extremely small. On the other hand, the numbers are showing a marked increase since 2011. Wikipedia citing articles are distributed in subject areas, such as library and information science, business, psychology, education, and communication more often than in other areas. The distribution of a total of 577 citations from 267 articles for which we were able to obtain full texts shows that Wikipedia is being cited mainly in studies of Wikipedia (139 citations, 24.1%) or as a ready reference source (331 citations, 57.4%). At the same time, about 15% of total citations turned out to be cases of potentially risky behaviors in which Wikipedia is being cited as a crucial basis or data source for study.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.25-43
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to suggest how the classic thesaurus structure of terms and links can be mined and updated from Wikipedia encyclopedia, which is the best practice of collective intelligence. In a comparison with ASIS&T thesaurus, it was found that Wikipedia contains a substantial coverage of domain-specific concepts and semantic relations. Furthermore, it was resulted that the structural characteristics of Wikipedia, such as redirects, categories, and mutual links are suitable to extract semantic relationships of thesaurus. It is needed to apply to update various thesauri, including multilingual thesaurus, in order to generalize the results of this research.